An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed there will be a new REPS scheme in the next programme for government.
“There are real meaningful gains for farmers in the programme for government, like the REPS II programme,” he said on Friday.
As revealed by the Irish Farmers Journal last week, Fine Gael negotiators have proposed that carbon tax revenue be dedicated to a new agri-environmental programme, described as “REPS Mark II”.
He also said that there will be “reforms” in the programme for government that “will give farmers more reliable and new streams of income for doing the things that we need them to do, particularly around climate action and biodiversity, seeing that as less of a threat and more of an opportunity for new revenue streams”.
Pleasantly surprised
“I sincerely hope that when farmers and people living in rural Ireland and those who are dependent on the rural economy, when they open the programme for government, I sincerely hope they’ll be pleasantly surprised by the content of it.
“The kind of things that we’re very much pressing forward, the National Broadband Plan should continue and be accelerated if anything.
“Investment in infrastructure through the various rural funds should continue, road projects that need to be done should be done and also that there are real meaningful gains for farmers in the programme for government, like the REPS II programme,” he said.
New beef scheme
An Taoiseach said that the new €50m beef scheme announced on Friday was approved by cabinet and subject to state aid approval.
“It will be implemented. It’s separate from the formation of a new government, so whether a new government is formed or not this money will flow to farmers.
“It’s not connected in any way to the programme for government,” he said.
The new €50m beef scheme is open to beef finishers only, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed told the Irish Farmers Journal on Friday.
He said he hopes it will “percolate down through the entire industry including the suckler sector, because it will put a floor under weanling prices in the autumn”.
It is expected that farmers will be paid a set amount per animal slaughtered since March of 2020, up until June potentially.
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An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed there will be a new REPS scheme in the next programme for government.
“There are real meaningful gains for farmers in the programme for government, like the REPS II programme,” he said on Friday.
As revealed by the Irish Farmers Journal last week, Fine Gael negotiators have proposed that carbon tax revenue be dedicated to a new agri-environmental programme, described as “REPS Mark II”.
He also said that there will be “reforms” in the programme for government that “will give farmers more reliable and new streams of income for doing the things that we need them to do, particularly around climate action and biodiversity, seeing that as less of a threat and more of an opportunity for new revenue streams”.
Pleasantly surprised
“I sincerely hope that when farmers and people living in rural Ireland and those who are dependent on the rural economy, when they open the programme for government, I sincerely hope they’ll be pleasantly surprised by the content of it.
“The kind of things that we’re very much pressing forward, the National Broadband Plan should continue and be accelerated if anything.
“Investment in infrastructure through the various rural funds should continue, road projects that need to be done should be done and also that there are real meaningful gains for farmers in the programme for government, like the REPS II programme,” he said.
New beef scheme
An Taoiseach said that the new €50m beef scheme announced on Friday was approved by cabinet and subject to state aid approval.
“It will be implemented. It’s separate from the formation of a new government, so whether a new government is formed or not this money will flow to farmers.
“It’s not connected in any way to the programme for government,” he said.
The new €50m beef scheme is open to beef finishers only, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed told the Irish Farmers Journal on Friday.
He said he hopes it will “percolate down through the entire industry including the suckler sector, because it will put a floor under weanling prices in the autumn”.
It is expected that farmers will be paid a set amount per animal slaughtered since March of 2020, up until June potentially.
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